In this week’s print Newscripts column, I wrote a bit about Cory C. Pye, a chemistry professor at Saint Mary’s University, in Nova Scotia, who sings to his general chemistry classes to summarize certain topics. Pye began adapting popular songs to have lyrics about chemistry nearly a decade ago and got a lot of press attention for it at the time. I missed the boat on that one. But the story just came to my attention because of a recent...

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